Book description
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history?
WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination?
11. 22. 63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .
King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher
from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 -
from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK,
of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee
Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill,
who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the
normal rules of time.
With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political
and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a
devastating exercise in escalating suspense. 'The pages of 11. 22. 63
fly by, filled with immediacy, pathos and suspense. It takes great
brazenness to go anywhere near this subject matter. But it takes great
skill to make this story even remotely credible. Mr. King makes it all
look easy, which is surely his book's fanciest trick.' Stephen King
has written some forty books and novellas, including CARRIE, THE STAND
and RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (from the collection
DIFFERENT SEASONS), BAG OF BONES, ON WRITING and most recently CELL,
LISEY'S STORY and DUMA KEY. He wrote several novels under the pseudonym
of Richard Bachman, including BLAZE (June 2007). He won America's
prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007
Edgar Allen Poe awards. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King,
in Maine, USA.
